War, Media, and Propaganda

A Global Perspective

Foreword by Ben H. Bagdikian Contributions by Lee Artz, Naiim Badii, Ben H. Bagdikian, Nicolene Botha, Naren Chitty, David J. Collison, Geoffrey Cowan, Arnold de Beer, Mahboub E. Hashem, Zhou He, Dana Hull, Karim H. Karim, Douglas Kellner UCLA; author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democra, Antonio C. La Pastina Texas A&M University, Ronald Paul Larson, David Miller, Asra Q. Nomani, Leila Conners Petersen, Danny Schechter news dissector; executive editor of MediaChannel.org; director of WMD: Weap, Nancy Snow, Norman Solomon, Majid Tehranian, Daya Kishan Thussu, Kathleen A. Tobin, Herman Wasserman Professor of Media Studie, R S. Zaharna, Barrie Zwicker Edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour, Nancy Snow Kyoto University of Forei

Publication date:

13 September 2004

Length of book:

280 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

234x189mm
7x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742535626

This timely book presents a multifaceted look at war, media, and propaganda from international perspectives. Focusing on the media's role in global conflicts, prominent authors, journalists, scholars, and researchers provide an insightful overview of the impact of globalization on media practices. They examine the processes behind media coverage of war, sophisticated propaganda techniques, the dynamics of public opinion, and the effects on human affairs and communication. As the book moves through theoretical discussions to regional and national views, it explores cultural-political implications for the United States and other countries around the world, concluding with recommendations and solutions to key problems of media globalization.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1 Information Dominance: The Philosophy of Total Propaganda Control?
Chapter 4 2 From Bombs and Bullets to Hearts and Minds: U.S. Public Diplomacy in an Age of Propaganda
Chapter 5 3 Selling the Iraq War: The Media Management Strategies We Never Saw
Chapter 6 4 Measuring Success: Profit and Propaganda
Chapter 7 5 Spinning War and Blotting Out Memory
Chapter 8 6 Weapons of Mass Distraction: World Security and Personal Politics
Chapter 9 7 Spectacle and Media Propaganda in the War on Iraq: A Critique of U.S. Broadcasting Networks
Chapter 10 8 War as Promotional "Photo-op": The New York Times's Visual Coverage of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Chapter 11 9 Murdoch's War—A Transnational Perspective
Chapter 12 10 Glossy: American Hegemony and the Culture of Death
Chapter 13 11 War, Propaganda, and Islam in Muslim and Western Sources
Chapter 14 12 Enemy Image: A Case Study in Creating a Mata Hari
Chapter 15 13 Anatomy of a Bonding: An Embedded Reporter's Account of the Bonding Process with the Soldiers
Chapter 16 14 The War on Iraq: A Reporter's Observations
Chapter 17 15 America: The Fourth Reich
Chapter 18 16 War on Iraq and Media Coverage: A Middle Eastern Perspective
Chapter 19 17 Iranians and Media Coverage of the War in Iraq: Rhetoric, Propaganda, and Contradiction
Chapter 20 18 South Africa and Iraq: The Battle for Media Reality
Chapter 21 19 The Chinese Watching the Iraqi War with Shock and Awe—As a Spectacular Game
Chapter 22 20 The Self-Absorbed Bully: A Brazilian View of the United States at War
Chapter 23 21 Threat or Ally? U.S.-Latin American Relations and the Middle East Conflict
Chapter 24 22 From Propaganda to Public Diplomacy in the Information Age
Chapter 25 23 Can We Make Them Love Us? Public Diplomacy After 9/11
Chapter 26 24 War, Media, and Propaganda: An Epilogue
Chapter 27 Suggested Readings

Taken together, the 24 essays in this collection demonstrate once again the truth of the cliché that truth is the first casualty of war. Several contributors discuss, and are disturbed by, the unprecedented extent of deliberate, detailed, and systematic lying (all of which has been documented) by the Bush administration regarding the instigation and conduct of the war on Iraq. Highly recommended.